I don’t know if you have heard, but Loops.video is a Reels/Tiktok like app from the creator of Pixelfed. I recall it being announced, and checked just now on a whim. All of a sudden, it appears pretty close to ready to launch!

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release it or dont. i hate this spamvertisement/countdown bullshit

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It’s marketing. People do it because it works.

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We dont need more tiktok like sites.

We need to kill the ones that already exist.

They are social cancer.

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isn’t it mostly because of their overly addictive recommendation algorithms? taking away infinite scrolling would also help a lot to make it more healthy.

I know people, 40+ in age, who just want to see some fun videos in their work breaks, when nobody’s around to talk with

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People were able to watch funny videos long before tiktok. Tiktok is cancer.

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I’ll be passing on that.

I don’t enjoy my content being the same format as advertising.

Glad to hear of any federated internet updates though.

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Do you feel the same way about Mastadon? Twitter was the “look at me” social media. I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you. Its impossible to carry on a real conversation on Twitter (a proper threaded message board like Lemmy excels at this). It seems tied in with the cult of personality whereas we need to shift to a culture of ideas.

I’m probably just a stupid millennial who doesn’t get it, but Lemmy seems like the only really good fediverse structure.

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Do you feel the same way about Mastadon?

Yes.

I’m not sure that’s my reason, but I’ve never understood Twitter/Mastodon. It’s just shouting into a void.

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Fully agree, I have masto/pixelfed client on my phone but Lemmy is the the one I used most by a long shot.

Idk why it is but on other platforms I feel like I’m intruding on someone else’s conversation, but I can freely reply here no problem (to some extent).

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Right. And if you say something constructive, we can respond, and if you don’t, the conversation branch dies.

Twitter/Mastadon do feel weird in that way, but I am thankful for Mastadon’s success even if it’s not really for me.

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I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you.

Lol at first I thought this was a direct criticism of the person you were replying to.

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Yeah but vertical videos are cancer, so…

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TikTok x Fediverse should be the worst conbination possible. Ben diagram with no space shared

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Ben diagram

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Never seen that image before. I love that

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